Quotes About Responsibility

swept over me. Guiltily I came to your bedside. There are the things I was thinking, son: I had been cross to you. I scolded you as you were dressing for school because you gave your face merely a dab with a towel. I took you to task for not cleaning your shoes. I called out angrily when you threw some of your things on the floor. At breakfast I found fault, too. You spilled things. You gulped down your food. You put your elbows on the table.

REGLA 3 Si usted está equivocado, admítalo rápida y enfáticamente.

If you are wrong, admit it quickly and emphatically.

To say we must be more mindful of our words is an understatement.

What was once a careless complaint among friends can now get you fired.

I told her how proud I was, now that she was growing up and had her very own job to do

She had got herself dressed before I had asked her to!

21 palavras de Thomas Carlyle que o ajudaram a levar uma vida livre de preocupações: "Nossa principal função não é enxergar o que jaz vagamente a distância, e sim fazer o que está claramente à mão.

Our trouble is not ignorance, but inaction.

Si usted está equivocado, admítalo rápida y enfáticamente.

If we know we are going to be rebuked anyhow, isn't it far better to beat the other person to it and do it ourselves

Hay un cierto grado de satisfacción en tener el valor de admitir los errores propios. No sólo limpia el aire de culpa y actitud defensiva, sino que a menudo ayuda a resolver el problema creado por el error.

I can't imagine the pressure you must be under to have the weight of an entire country on your shoulders.

To show you I'm sure that you'll never do this again, I want you to service my F-51 tomorrow.

When held accountable for their business dealings

but I felt accountable and compelled to help in some way.

If we know we are going to be rebuked anyhow, isn't it far better to beat the other person to it and do it ourselves? Isn't it much easier to listen to self-criticism than to bear condemnation from alien lips?

If I send this letter, it will relieve my feelings, but it will make Meade try to justify himself. It will make him condemn me. It will arouse hard feelings, impair all his further usefulness as a commander, and perhaps force him to resign from the army.

Who died maintaining his right of way— He was right, dead right, as he sped along, But he's just as dead as if he were wrong.

If Al Capone, Two Gun Crowley, Dutch Schultz, and the desperate men and women behind prison walls don't blame themselves for anything - what about the people with whom you and I come in contact?

when we're wrong, they certainly expect us to own up to it.

His name was Sir William Osler. Here are the twenty-one words that he read in the spring of 1871—twenty-one words from Thomas Carlyle that helped him lead a life free from worry: "Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

How well you own up to your mistakes makes a bigger impression than how you revel in your successes.

We have all read the golden rule and the Sermon on the Mount. Our trouble is not ignorance, but inaction.